Romancing McShep: Promt list 2019
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romancingmcshepWe had lots of wonderful prompts. To make it easier for those that check one place but not the other I've taken the prompts posted at LJ and at DW and put them together here in one long list.
To see the original prompt requests:
Prompt post on DW
Prompt post on LJ
1. Rodney works in a lab doing science at all hours of the night. One night an assistant leaves the radio on to the local station and he hears the late-night call show hosted by John and he finds himself tuning in more and more often. John gets a lot of calls for advice on various topics, including love and sex. In real life he has a hard time connecting to people enough to have relationships of his own. Maybe Rodney arranges a meet-up, or becomes a regular caller, but eventually they meet. Cue heart eyes. ::grins::
2. A canon-compliant SGA take on, or fully AU fusion with, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where John drags Rodney on one crazy adventure after another all while working up the courage to admit his feelings.
3. Any variation on an amnesia fic where nothing can take away the bone-deep memory of being in love with the other person. Because there can never be enough amnesia fic!
4. Leverage AU - Rodney is Nate/the grumpy Mastermind, John is Sophie/the Grifter (author's choice on the rest of the crew).
5. Post-declassification, John & Rodney's wedding gets taken over by the Air Force PR department and turned into an Event, so they ditch it and elope.
6. John is a gardener, and of course Rodney doesn't need one, because he only has a balcony he never uses (too much sun). But with Jeannie pregnant again, suddenly Rodney is responsible for Jeannie's garden: lawn mowing, hand-weeding, and other horrible things. John is the solution to (all) his problems.
7. Historical AU: In ancient Rome John buys a slave (Rodney) for doing the administrative work on his latifundium. Rodney not only revolutionzes the farm work but also changes John's view of the world.
8. AU where John is a spy and is given the assignment to spy on Rodney, but instead falls for him.
9. AU, where Rodney owns a small scientific company and John is the head of a megacorporation that wants to buy him out.
10. Canon-compliant story but where they find a quantum mirror, and John (or Rodney - OR BOTH) get a glance at one or more AUs where they are together (Iowa 'verse, Supermarket 'verse, Mail Myself To You 'verse, Fair Trade 'verse).
11. AU where John is a big machine operator and accidentally knocks down the wall to Rodney's house. (That's more of a "meet angry" at least on Rodney's part, rather than a "meet cute")
12. AU where John is the sheriff and keeps pulling Rodney over because he can't get up the courage to ask him out.
13. Jeannie is having/has had a baby, and invites John and Rodney (or maybe the whole team?) to the christening, and asks them to be godparents. Rodney panics.
14. Jeannie is having/has had a baby, and invites John and Rodney (or maybe the whole team?) to the christening, and asks them to be godparents. Rodney panics.
15. Sheppard carries a very powerful ATA gene. He goes to random civilization x, and powers up their stuff with his gene. Which they think means he is cursed or special, either way, and so they kidnap him and use him for secret evil scientist experiments. Team to the rescue!!
16. AU, with Sheppard being either a shifter/Sentinel/winged creature, and coveted by the EVIL PEOPLE (or desperate people, making them be evil) of your choice, either for experimenting on or for collection or for servitude. So he's been successfully hiding, or he's been captured. Or he's just been discovered! Always a fun trope, particularly since him being the chosen one is canon anyway.
17. I love, love, any hidden injury fics, where John is the whumpee. McShep, with a heavy dose of team. Always awesome, heavy on the comfort side.
18. Rodney is Tok'ra. And John really likes Rodney but he's more than a little creeped out by the whole alien snake sharing his head thing. Spoiler: they get past it and fall in love
19. Grant Jansky on Atlantis. The guys a genius computerist (yeah, I don't know computers), he could have caught the SGCs eyes before he ended up trading. In a Rodney-less Atlantis, with Radek refusing to be on John's team even though he's CSO, John flies against expectations and asks Grant to be on his team. Spoiler: they fall in love.
20. Regency AU. I don't even have a plot, I just want a Regency AU. Spoiler: they fall in love.
21. I've always wanted to do a McShep Pride & Prejudice... not the whole thing though, I'm thinking of a very specific scene ^_^
22. Oooooh, I'd adore a Grant-on-Atlantis fic, with other expedition members acting protective & John showing surprising understanding of Grant's mental facility with maths! <3 <3 <3
23.
Sheppard Air: This used to be on the Apple app store - maybe it still is: Obviously, John Sheppard's running a small company as a flight instructor and he wants an app to help his students get qualified. So he goes to one R. M. McKay, a software developer, for help designing the interface... romance ensues!
24. .Lupercalia coincides with Valentine's day, so how about a fusion with A Companion to Wolves where John and Rodney (and others) are bonded to psychic wolves. Maybe one of them's bonded to a wolfsister, in fact, who goes into heat... The wolves are most likely adapted Marine wolves bred specially for the SGC.
25. A crossover set after the end of the movie "Treed Murray" (surprisingly good!). Murray (David Hewlett) decides that he needs to learn martial arts to defend himself if he ever gets mugged again. He goes to a dojo where Ronon and Teyla are instructors - but it turns out Brendan Dean (Joe Flanigan from "Thoughtcrimes") also goes to that dojo...
26. John is a gardener, and of course Rodney doesn't need one, because he only has a balcony he never uses (too much sun). But with Jeannie pregnant again, suddenly Rodney is responsible for Jeannie's garden: lawn mowing, hand-weeding, and other horrible things. John is the solution to (all) his problems.
27. Historical AU: In ancient Rome John buys a slave (Rodney) for doing the administrative work on his latifundium. Rodney not only revolutionzes the farm work but also changes John's view of the world.
28. So I was driving home and had a sudden urge for Vulcan!John fic. Maybe with Rodney as human or as a betazoid... Or some other kind of alien... -- Just... Vulcan!John- who doesn't like touching others because it means he can *feel* them. Plus, the pointy ears help.
29. Christmas Family McShep fic. - Short version: John's dad, instead of dying almost dies. His family decides they must all get together for Christmas in response. Rodney offers to go with John. Everyone thinks they're dating (spoiler: they aren't, but then they are)
30. John is an unbonded Sentinel who didn't go on the first expedition to Atlantis because unbonded Sentinels are not allowed to go on long term or one way missions. Then SGC makes contact with Atlantis a year later and Rodney (along with command team) comes back to Earth for debriefing and sparks booms between John and Rodney when they meet.
31. Rodney has never been in love and isn't interested in falling in love. He is more interested in making a name and in science. It isn't until he meets John that he begins to reconsider falling in love.
32. John and Rodney are in an established but secret relationship when Rodney is kidnapped. When John does eventually find Rodney, they kiss in public, outing themselves to everyone on Atlantis. I would love to see various reactions from the team, and everyone else. Did they know already, or surprised and is there anyone who's homophobic etc?
33. SGC AU: John and Rodney hook up over Grindr, and then accidentally run into each other at work the next day. Record Scratch. Embarrassment. Fear. Hope?? Then it's like they can't stop running into each other. Eating lunch at the same table. Working on a project together. Falling in love.
34. I drove home from work the other day behind a van for 'Sheppard catering' and, well, can't you just see an AU fic with John baking? And Rodney isn't sure if he loves the cupcakes or the baker more.
35. Trapped off-world, in torrential rains, and there's only one tent and John & Rodney are forced to share body heat to keep warm.
36. John is sick, delirious and is rambling. Thinks the person who's with him is Rodney and is confessing love death-bed style. Only it's not Rodney who's there.
37. A Numb3rs fusion AU where John is the mathematician and Rodney the FBI agent (or vice-versa)
38. Rodney is a bank teller part time while he works out his Theory of Everything to wow the masses. This one regular customer is kind of good-looking but unnecessarily awkward and what is with his ridiculous hair? Then one day the hot customer passes Rodney a note. OH NO IT'S A BANK ROBBERY! Rodney panics and pushes the big red button. The hottie tries to leave, but the security guard is all over him like a cheap suit. The cops are on their way!—
Rodney steps back feeling bravely virtuous! Then finally reads the note. "Hi. I'm John. I know you're working right now, but here's my number if you want to go for coffee."
39. I'd love to see a McShep or Hewligan version of "Desk Set", the 1957 Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn romcom. From IMDB: "The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. Department head Bunny Watson, who knows everything, needs no computer to unmask Richard. The resulting battle of wits and witty dialogue pits Bunny's fear of losing her job against her dawning attraction to Richard." <3 <3 <3
40. The Hill of Tara in Ireland is rumored to be the entrance to the otherworld.
What if that were true? What if John and Rodney (or Hewilgan pairing of choice) stumbled into it?
41. Magic is real. A spellcasting goes awry. Could be an unexpected love spell or could be overcoming the danger the spell puts one of our guys in.
42. Brendan Dean and Emmett have to work together to solve a case. Neither one knew going in that they would have to pretend to be a couple.
43. Sam Synn is stranded on a desert island with David Kellum. Working together is the only way they'll survive.
44. McShep are flying commercial (for whatever reason) and the pilots suddenly get a call to prepare for an Air Force emergency communication. Next thing you know, McShep get beamed straight out of the aeroplane to save the world and the entire passenger complement sees... declassification required.
To see the original prompt requests:
Prompt post on DW
Prompt post on LJ
1. Rodney works in a lab doing science at all hours of the night. One night an assistant leaves the radio on to the local station and he hears the late-night call show hosted by John and he finds himself tuning in more and more often. John gets a lot of calls for advice on various topics, including love and sex. In real life he has a hard time connecting to people enough to have relationships of his own. Maybe Rodney arranges a meet-up, or becomes a regular caller, but eventually they meet. Cue heart eyes. ::grins::
2. A canon-compliant SGA take on, or fully AU fusion with, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where John drags Rodney on one crazy adventure after another all while working up the courage to admit his feelings.
3. Any variation on an amnesia fic where nothing can take away the bone-deep memory of being in love with the other person. Because there can never be enough amnesia fic!
4. Leverage AU - Rodney is Nate/the grumpy Mastermind, John is Sophie/the Grifter (author's choice on the rest of the crew).
5. Post-declassification, John & Rodney's wedding gets taken over by the Air Force PR department and turned into an Event, so they ditch it and elope.
6. John is a gardener, and of course Rodney doesn't need one, because he only has a balcony he never uses (too much sun). But with Jeannie pregnant again, suddenly Rodney is responsible for Jeannie's garden: lawn mowing, hand-weeding, and other horrible things. John is the solution to (all) his problems.
7. Historical AU: In ancient Rome John buys a slave (Rodney) for doing the administrative work on his latifundium. Rodney not only revolutionzes the farm work but also changes John's view of the world.
8. AU where John is a spy and is given the assignment to spy on Rodney, but instead falls for him.
9. AU, where Rodney owns a small scientific company and John is the head of a megacorporation that wants to buy him out.
10. Canon-compliant story but where they find a quantum mirror, and John (or Rodney - OR BOTH) get a glance at one or more AUs where they are together (Iowa 'verse, Supermarket 'verse, Mail Myself To You 'verse, Fair Trade 'verse).
11. AU where John is a big machine operator and accidentally knocks down the wall to Rodney's house. (That's more of a "meet angry" at least on Rodney's part, rather than a "meet cute")
12. AU where John is the sheriff and keeps pulling Rodney over because he can't get up the courage to ask him out.
13. Jeannie is having/has had a baby, and invites John and Rodney (or maybe the whole team?) to the christening, and asks them to be godparents. Rodney panics.
14. Jeannie is having/has had a baby, and invites John and Rodney (or maybe the whole team?) to the christening, and asks them to be godparents. Rodney panics.
15. Sheppard carries a very powerful ATA gene. He goes to random civilization x, and powers up their stuff with his gene. Which they think means he is cursed or special, either way, and so they kidnap him and use him for secret evil scientist experiments. Team to the rescue!!
16. AU, with Sheppard being either a shifter/Sentinel/winged creature, and coveted by the EVIL PEOPLE (or desperate people, making them be evil) of your choice, either for experimenting on or for collection or for servitude. So he's been successfully hiding, or he's been captured. Or he's just been discovered! Always a fun trope, particularly since him being the chosen one is canon anyway.
17. I love, love, any hidden injury fics, where John is the whumpee. McShep, with a heavy dose of team. Always awesome, heavy on the comfort side.
18. Rodney is Tok'ra. And John really likes Rodney but he's more than a little creeped out by the whole alien snake sharing his head thing. Spoiler: they get past it and fall in love
19. Grant Jansky on Atlantis. The guys a genius computerist (yeah, I don't know computers), he could have caught the SGCs eyes before he ended up trading. In a Rodney-less Atlantis, with Radek refusing to be on John's team even though he's CSO, John flies against expectations and asks Grant to be on his team. Spoiler: they fall in love.
20. Regency AU. I don't even have a plot, I just want a Regency AU. Spoiler: they fall in love.
21. I've always wanted to do a McShep Pride & Prejudice... not the whole thing though, I'm thinking of a very specific scene ^_^
22. Oooooh, I'd adore a Grant-on-Atlantis fic, with other expedition members acting protective & John showing surprising understanding of Grant's mental facility with maths! <3 <3 <3
23.
Sheppard Air: This used to be on the Apple app store - maybe it still is: Obviously, John Sheppard's running a small company as a flight instructor and he wants an app to help his students get qualified. So he goes to one R. M. McKay, a software developer, for help designing the interface... romance ensues!24. .Lupercalia coincides with Valentine's day, so how about a fusion with A Companion to Wolves where John and Rodney (and others) are bonded to psychic wolves. Maybe one of them's bonded to a wolfsister, in fact, who goes into heat... The wolves are most likely adapted Marine wolves bred specially for the SGC.
25. A crossover set after the end of the movie "Treed Murray" (surprisingly good!). Murray (David Hewlett) decides that he needs to learn martial arts to defend himself if he ever gets mugged again. He goes to a dojo where Ronon and Teyla are instructors - but it turns out Brendan Dean (Joe Flanigan from "Thoughtcrimes") also goes to that dojo...
26. John is a gardener, and of course Rodney doesn't need one, because he only has a balcony he never uses (too much sun). But with Jeannie pregnant again, suddenly Rodney is responsible for Jeannie's garden: lawn mowing, hand-weeding, and other horrible things. John is the solution to (all) his problems.
27. Historical AU: In ancient Rome John buys a slave (Rodney) for doing the administrative work on his latifundium. Rodney not only revolutionzes the farm work but also changes John's view of the world.
28. So I was driving home and had a sudden urge for Vulcan!John fic. Maybe with Rodney as human or as a betazoid... Or some other kind of alien... -- Just... Vulcan!John- who doesn't like touching others because it means he can *feel* them. Plus, the pointy ears help.
29. Christmas Family McShep fic. - Short version: John's dad, instead of dying almost dies. His family decides they must all get together for Christmas in response. Rodney offers to go with John. Everyone thinks they're dating (spoiler: they aren't, but then they are)
30. John is an unbonded Sentinel who didn't go on the first expedition to Atlantis because unbonded Sentinels are not allowed to go on long term or one way missions. Then SGC makes contact with Atlantis a year later and Rodney (along with command team) comes back to Earth for debriefing and sparks booms between John and Rodney when they meet.
31. Rodney has never been in love and isn't interested in falling in love. He is more interested in making a name and in science. It isn't until he meets John that he begins to reconsider falling in love.
32. John and Rodney are in an established but secret relationship when Rodney is kidnapped. When John does eventually find Rodney, they kiss in public, outing themselves to everyone on Atlantis. I would love to see various reactions from the team, and everyone else. Did they know already, or surprised and is there anyone who's homophobic etc?
33. SGC AU: John and Rodney hook up over Grindr, and then accidentally run into each other at work the next day. Record Scratch. Embarrassment. Fear. Hope?? Then it's like they can't stop running into each other. Eating lunch at the same table. Working on a project together. Falling in love.
34. I drove home from work the other day behind a van for 'Sheppard catering' and, well, can't you just see an AU fic with John baking? And Rodney isn't sure if he loves the cupcakes or the baker more.
35. Trapped off-world, in torrential rains, and there's only one tent and John & Rodney are forced to share body heat to keep warm.
36. John is sick, delirious and is rambling. Thinks the person who's with him is Rodney and is confessing love death-bed style. Only it's not Rodney who's there.
37. A Numb3rs fusion AU where John is the mathematician and Rodney the FBI agent (or vice-versa)
38. Rodney is a bank teller part time while he works out his Theory of Everything to wow the masses. This one regular customer is kind of good-looking but unnecessarily awkward and what is with his ridiculous hair? Then one day the hot customer passes Rodney a note. OH NO IT'S A BANK ROBBERY! Rodney panics and pushes the big red button. The hottie tries to leave, but the security guard is all over him like a cheap suit. The cops are on their way!—
Rodney steps back feeling bravely virtuous! Then finally reads the note. "Hi. I'm John. I know you're working right now, but here's my number if you want to go for coffee."
39. I'd love to see a McShep or Hewligan version of "Desk Set", the 1957 Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn romcom. From IMDB: "The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who's been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. Department head Bunny Watson, who knows everything, needs no computer to unmask Richard. The resulting battle of wits and witty dialogue pits Bunny's fear of losing her job against her dawning attraction to Richard." <3 <3 <3
40. The Hill of Tara in Ireland is rumored to be the entrance to the otherworld.
What if that were true? What if John and Rodney (or Hewilgan pairing of choice) stumbled into it?
41. Magic is real. A spellcasting goes awry. Could be an unexpected love spell or could be overcoming the danger the spell puts one of our guys in.
42. Brendan Dean and Emmett have to work together to solve a case. Neither one knew going in that they would have to pretend to be a couple.
43. Sam Synn is stranded on a desert island with David Kellum. Working together is the only way they'll survive.
44. McShep are flying commercial (for whatever reason) and the pilots suddenly get a call to prepare for an Air Force emergency communication. Next thing you know, McShep get beamed straight out of the aeroplane to save the world and the entire passenger complement sees... declassification required.